Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from the last Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Fall 2006 Tuesday, October 24 10:45 AM - Noon Track III: Ubiquitous Video to the Consumer: The Technology Enablers - Broadband, IPTV, Mobile & TV We are entering the age of all video all the time. Video is no longer a manifestation of TV, video is a web experience, a mobile experience, as well as an IPTV, Cable and Satellite experience. Video is taped on a hard drive, a PVR, DVR, on an iPOD and on a cell phone. Video is how consumers relate to the world. The conversion to the all-video culture has been so quiet and so quick, the implications of what an all-video culture may mean is only first becoming part of the national business and intellectual conversation. The technology and communication companies that have developed and provide the new video services may well have the greatest insight as to what these new technologies and cultural advances mean. In this session, we are delighted to bring that group of experts to a public forum. Blake Krikorian, CEO, Sling Media Frank Nein, Industry & Technology Analyst/Consultant, Verizon (ANJ) Video/Broadcast Portal Gerard Grech, Strategy & Business Development Director, Content Partnerships and Services, Orange-France Telecom David Britts, Partner, ComVentures Andrew Thau, COO, Network LIVE Michael Gordon, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Limelight Networks Derek Kuhn, P.Eng., Senior Director Marketing and Business Development Media and Entertainment, Alcatel, Moderator Gerard Grech, Business Development and Content Strategy Director at the Content Division of France Telecom: Gerard worked in the music and media industries before joining Orange and then France Telecom. He was a founding member of Centric Records (signings included Craig David), a new media correspondent for Music Week and business consultant for clients including Warner Music Strategic Marketing, Universal Music Group, and Manga Film Entertainment. After his MBA, Gerard joined to launch the Orange Consulting Group, before moving to Orange International as Head of Music and Video. He spearheaded the delivery of new mobile content services by forging strong links between the mobile and media industries, introducing music track download and streaming, VOD, major artist and film promotions, Caller Ringback Tones and co-supervised the Orange-Star Wars franchise deal. Last year he was invited to join France Telecom's newly formed Content Division, where he is responsible for strategy and business development for the partnerships and services team. He is also a board director of the Mobile Entertainment Forum. Michael Gordon, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Limelight Networks: Michael Gordon is a 20-year industry veteran whose career spans a wide range of executive and leadership positions in technology, software, networking and telecommunications. As Chief Strategy Officer, Gordon was instrumental in creating Limelight’s digital media delivery strategy, as well as a digital media focused service deployment that has resulted in over nine successive quarters of profitability as a private company. Prior to Limelight, he co-found and led Axient Communications which built and deployed a nationwide next-generation Internet network for high volume Internet users. Before Axient, Gordon co-founded Cyclone Commerce, a leading enterprise software company that provides cross-enterprise connection and collaboration solutions. He also co-founded Gateway Data Sciences Corporation, a software and services company that went public in 1996. Gordon has also held sales and management positions at IBM and National City Bank. David Britts, General Partner, ComVentures: David Britts has extensive experience advising, building and investing in leading communications and digital media technology companies, an increasing number of whom have significant operations and markets in China. His most recent investments focus on emerging technologies that are solving some of the broadcast and entertainment industry's toughest problems. For example, infrastructure company Exavio has completely redefined the real-time post-production process for editing uncompressed HDTV, and is enabling new methods for distributing personalized TV and other video content over IP. David focuses his investments on early-stage communications and digital media companies. He is currently on the boards of Celestial, Exalt and Exavio.His past investments include HotRail (acquired by Conexant) and PortalPlayer (Nasdaq: PLAY). David joined ComVentures from JPMorgan Partners, where he was a General Partner and the global head of the firm's communications, semiconductors and storage technology venture investment group. Previously, David was a member of the founding team of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (DMG) Technology Group, which later became a part of Credit Suisse First Boston. There, he established the global communications equipment practice, advising and investing in numerous early-stage companies. David holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Pallavi Shah, Senior Director, Technology Commercialization, Hewlett-Packard: Pallavi Shah is industry recognized thought leader, spokesperson and champion in digital media and rights management. She has led cross-functional alliances and global teams to bring advanced media technologies to market for the last 12 years. She is responsible for HP’s Digital Rights Management strategy for Digital Entertainment business since 2004. Prior to HP, Pallavi was Sr. Market Segment Manager for Sun and was responsible for recruiting and managing strategic partners in the streaming and rich media infrastructure market. She chaired ISO's MPEG4-Java standards group and formed multi-company alliances. Prior to Sun, Ms Shah was with the Sarnoff Corporation (RCA research lab). She represented the HDTV Grand Alliance during the development of HDTV and pioneered the world's first E-Commerce application of interactive HDTV at NAB-95. She has served as a panelist/speaker at over 50 industry conferences and published papers. She has two patents in the architecture of interactive digital media. She holds M.S. from Utah State University and B.S from University of Pune, India. Frank Nein, Industry & Technology Analyst/Consultant, Verizon (ANJ) Video/Broadcast Portal: Frank Nein is a senior corporate, telecommunications industry analyst and technology consultant within the Verizon Video Portal & Broadcast Network HQ in Newark NJ specializing in the delivery and support of broadband interactive video communications, content, initiatives and the placement of future IPTV type emerging information technologies like FTTP & FiOS into multiple learning environments via a $150 million dollar project budget. Frank is consulting on many IPTV, FTTP & FiOS related type projects with new vendors like Synergy Sports Technology (Mark Cuban connected), SST is an IPTV TiVo-like broadcasting, VOD & streaming media service presently active and exclusive to the NBA & teams on a 24/7 VPN basis. OrionsWave LLC, for next generation interactive/digital media gateways, transcoding, middleware and (CDN) content delivery network solutions over IPTV style infrastructures allowing all set-top boxes the ability to seamlessly merge conventional H.323 and H.264/MPEG-4 with all other AV media codec’s for cross platform video broadcast conferencing utilizing existing and new solutions like the Adobe/Macromedia Breeze product over multiple devices and portable wireless devices such as mobiles, PDA’s and SmartPhones, etc. Frank was originally hired by Bell Atlantic 10 years ago as an executive director for corporate online communications & technology. He was involved with the original creative media services & digital interactive TV/video services group and chief advisory analyst/consultant on the Bell Atlantic/NYNEX Internet team and corporate merger steering committee. Frank was also responsible for the complete delivery of Ivan Seidenberg’s first live corporate wide webcast and address as new CEO via the internal BA broadcasting network. Prior to BA/VZ, Frank was a lead R&D consultant & analyst for CNNfn.com NY corporate worldwide information technology & services division working with Nils Lahr the chief architect, developer/webmaster for IT/IS & interactive multimedia division as a liaison to the development and implementation of the first live/VOD & real-time online financial streaming media solution and web portal broadcasting network for the project and business strategy. To Frank’s professional and industry credit; over the past 15 years he has respectively worked closely within the broadcasting, cable, video, satellite, streaming media, telecommunications, media & entertainment, and related industry’s on various corporate business levels and projects with such chief company’s as Broadcast.com, Lucent Technologies, Yahoo Music/Ent, iBEAM Broadcasting, (James Cameron’s) Lightstorm Ent, (Schwarzenegger’s) Oak Productions, New Line Cinema, Fox News, ESPN 1&2, Comcast, Bloomberg TV, Planet Hollywood, Clear Channel Ent, Metropolitan Hybrid Ent. etc. just to name a brief few. Frank is prior US Military and served with the "First Ever" US Navy combined Marine/Navy (FA-18) VFA-125 Fighter Jet Squadron in CA. He holds a BS in Engineering & Technology from the National Institute for Certification of Engineering Technologies at Alexandria Virginia. BLAKE KRIKORIAN, CEO, Sling Media: An experienced entrepreneur, Blake Krikorian co-founded Sling Media after founding and serving as the CEO of id8 Group Holdings, a firm which both advised industry-leading companies on product strategy and invested in new product creation. id8 Group’s client list has included, among others, Microsoft, AMD, ARM Ltd, AT&T, Toshiba, Hitachi, Vulcan, Inc., Samsung Electronics, and Time Warner. Blake started his career at General Magic, which created the Magic Cap operating system for mobile intelligent communicators and Telescript, an agent-based network programming language for the emerging electronic marketplace (pre-Internet). At General Magic, Blake assisted industry-leading telecom and consumer electronics companies, including NTT, Sony, Mitsubishi Electric, Sanyo, OKI, and Matsushita/Panasonic, in creating and defining new products, and partnerships. In 1994, Blake co-founded the Philips Mobile Computing Group, which was funded by Philips Electronics. As group product manager, he built and co-led the team that defined, created, delivered, and marketed the award-winning Velo 1 Windows CE Handheld PC and its associated product line. Blake then left Philips Mobile Computing Group to serve as Senior Vice President at Metis Associates, an information technology consulting firm and incubator of core technology companies. He led the creation of Metis’ first incubated company, Mainbrace Corporation, which developed and licensed software technologies and manufacture-able device platforms to system OEMs, service providers, and semiconductor vendors. Blake’s served as the company’s President for the first two years of its operation. Mainbrace was acquired by BSQUARE in 2000. Blake holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA. Andrew Thau, Chief Operating Officer, Network LIVE: As Chief Operating Officer of Network LIVE, Andrew Thau leads the execution of the company’s strategy to create the first horizontal digital network. Thau’s successful track record and veteran status in building and operating companies and brands that secure valuable mind- and market-share has quickly helped to establish Network LIVE as a pioneer of the new network business model. As Senior Vice President Operations and Network Development of Fox Cable Networks and Fox Sports International, he launched Fox Sports World and oversaw advertising, distribution, programming and budgets for five top cable networks in the United States and internationally. Thau also worked in senior executive positions at Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp, Fox Latin American Channel.  A pioneer in digital distribution of content, Thau served as President and CEO of Be Here Technologies, a software technology company focused on immersive video content across multiple industries. Thau was responsible for the strategy and leadership of the company as well as a multi-million dollar operating budget. Within a year’s time, Thau quadrupled revenue for Be Here Technologies. Thau led the development and marketing of the TotalView broadcast product line and conceived and negotiated the NBC/NBA agreement for the 2001 NBA finals. Other agreements included the NBC Olympics, security deals with Philips Electronics, Entertainment Tonight, and various other licensees.  Thau has also held senior executive positions at the Voy Network, a cable television network targeting the U.S. Hispanic market and mainstream audiences interested in Latin culture, and in 2002, he opened a consulting firm specializing in business and strategic development.  Andrew Thau holds a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from George Washington University.